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Dr Karl Harrison - From Site to Scene (and back again)?: The development of the forensic archaeologist

Tue, 13 Mar 2018
from 17:15 to 18:15

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Dr Karl Harrison
Cranfield University

From Site to Scene (and back again)?: The development of the forensic archaeologist

This presentation argues that the ‘story’ of forensic archaeology has been dominated by three key themes: A strong ‘founder myth’; and overt rejection of the power of theory within archaeological interpretation and the forensic archaeologist as solitary expert. Each of these themes is questioned in turn – the beginnings of forensic archaeology are argued to be rather more complex and dependent upon the development of palaeopathology and the nature of interpretation in forensic archaeology to be indivisable from theoretically-founded tools and archaeological reasoning. Finally, the experience of the author in coordinating recent large-scale operations at Didcot Power Station and Grenfell Tower is one in which the traditional model of archaeology as a group activity has reasserted itself.

Location

University of Bradford

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